Andrews Forest Log
A custom WordPress archive for a 200-year cultural collection inspired by Oregon's H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest.
The Andrews Forest Log is a living archive of creative work inspired by the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest — a 16,000-acre old-growth research forest in Oregon’s Cascade Range managed by Oregon State University, the USDA Forest Service, and the Willamette National Forest. Since 2004, the Long-Term Ecological Reflections Residency program has invited artists, writers, and musicians to visit the forest, engage with active research, and translate their experiences into poetry, prose, images, sound, and more. Contributors include a Pulitzer Prize finalist and writers published in The Atlantic, Orion, National Geographic, and Emergence Magazine. The Forest Log collects and preserves this growing cultural dataset — and will continue to do so for 200 years.
Website Design
We designed and built the Andrews Forest Log as a custom WordPress site to serve as the permanent digital home for a 200-year cultural archive. The site needed to do something unusual: present creative work (poetry, prose, images, sound) within a navigable archive structure that could grow for centuries. We built a content architecture organized by genre (Poetry, Prose, Image, Sound), by contributor (with individual participant profiles), and by timeline — so visitors can explore the collection from any angle. The design is contemplative and restrained, letting the creative work carry the weight: generous whitespace, careful typography, and nature-forward photography from the forest itself. A custom contributor system links individual participants to their work, even when they’ve chosen to publish elsewhere. The site is built to be maintained by the program’s academic staff at OSU, with editorial workflows that let them publish new contributions and add new residents without developer involvement.
Website Hosting & Maintenance
We host andrewsforestlog.org on managed WordPress infrastructure. The hosting plan includes performance optimization, daily backups, security hardening, 24/7 monitoring, and direct support from our team. The site’s 200-year timeframe makes reliability and long-term maintainability especially important — the archive needs to remain accessible and performant as the collection grows over decades and generations.
03 — The Work
Poetry, prose, image, sound — archived for two centuries.
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